Positively Selected Sites in Cetacean Myoglobins Contribute to Protein Stability

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Dasmeh, Pouria ^a,b   Serohijos, Adrian W R ^b   Kepp, Kasper P ^a   Shakhnovich, Eugene I ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; HYDROGEN BONDS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; PROTEINS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

BAYESIAN TEST; BINDING AFFINITIES; FOLDINGS; MA XIMUM LIKELIHOODS; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD; OXYGEN STORAGE CAPACITY; PROTEIN STABILITY; SEQUENCE RECONSTRUCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STABILITY EFFECTS;

STABILIZATION;

MYOGLOBIN;

ARTICLE; CETACEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84875986323     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002929     Document Type: Article

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